Game Spam!
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erastesI've had my trusty playstation 2 for many years now, five? six? something like that. I have no interest at the moment in upgrading to a PS3 as it's too damned expensive and doesn't have a lot of games at the mo. Fifty quid for a new game? I don't think so.
Anyway, it is actually a really great time to be a PS2 gamer, as the prices of games have plummeted as the games execs assume we are all rushing off to get a PS3 and they are still producing games for my darling machine. It's actually amusing that most games out of the PS3 are getting a slightly-not-as-good version released for the PS2 too. This doesn't bode well for their shiny new console does it? There's only Assassins Creed that I fancy on the new machine and that doesn't have a PS2 version, sadly.
Anyhoo, I have started to get "games that I've always wanted but haven't got around to or didn't want to buy new" and this week I bought Freedom Fighters, Ico, Escape from Monkey Island and Shadow of Rome.
I've been playing Ico this morning and I'm In Love. It's utterly entrancing. It's a little classic of a game that I've heard very good things about but just never got as successful as people expected it to do. Basically you play as a young kid of a Japanese type (Ico) who was born with horns. There's a curse on his village and every so often a child is born like this. Faceless soldiers take the boy away to an enormous (and so beautiful it makes you want to cry) castle and wall him up in a stone tomb. He escapes (or it would be a very short game) and sets off to find a way out. Very soon he finds a beautiful spirit-like girl call Yorda who can hardly walk by herself and who, every so often, is attacked by shadow creatures which you have to fight off with a stick. You have to lead Yorda around, help her climb and generally look after her. It's utterly gorgeous and everything the people said about it is true. Even the save point is enrapturing, being a stone bench which you have to sit on, but the game won't save until Yorda sits down with you. *sigh *
Shadow of Rome is half a game that I like. That is to say that for half the game you control a very girlie boy Roman who I am convinced is MORE than good friends with the other playable character and you sneak about Rome trying not to be seen. This I like. Sadly for (couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo) Erastes, the other half of the game is to be spent in the Coliseum bashing and hacking limbs from creatures and gladiators. I feel I'm going to suck mightily at that part.
Freedom Fighters is a shooting game, i think, but with a nice twist that you have to recruit people to your cause so you have tasks to do as well as just shooting - basically its an AU where the Russians won World War 2 and America is Commie. i wonder if I can be a double agent and bring down the resistance? Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.... A joke that no-one non-English will get...
Escape from Monkey Island is a game I've owned and played before but for some reason I got rid of it. Can't imagine why, point and clicks are my favourite games of all time and they are as rare as hen's teeth on Playstation, sadly.
Other than THAT, I've bought Sid Meier's Pirates for the PC, which looks inordinate amounts of swash. And possibly buckling.
So... you'll probably see me... sometime in 2009?
Anyway, it is actually a really great time to be a PS2 gamer, as the prices of games have plummeted as the games execs assume we are all rushing off to get a PS3 and they are still producing games for my darling machine. It's actually amusing that most games out of the PS3 are getting a slightly-not-as-good version released for the PS2 too. This doesn't bode well for their shiny new console does it? There's only Assassins Creed that I fancy on the new machine and that doesn't have a PS2 version, sadly.
Anyhoo, I have started to get "games that I've always wanted but haven't got around to or didn't want to buy new" and this week I bought Freedom Fighters, Ico, Escape from Monkey Island and Shadow of Rome.
I've been playing Ico this morning and I'm In Love. It's utterly entrancing. It's a little classic of a game that I've heard very good things about but just never got as successful as people expected it to do. Basically you play as a young kid of a Japanese type (Ico) who was born with horns. There's a curse on his village and every so often a child is born like this. Faceless soldiers take the boy away to an enormous (and so beautiful it makes you want to cry) castle and wall him up in a stone tomb. He escapes (or it would be a very short game) and sets off to find a way out. Very soon he finds a beautiful spirit-like girl call Yorda who can hardly walk by herself and who, every so often, is attacked by shadow creatures which you have to fight off with a stick. You have to lead Yorda around, help her climb and generally look after her. It's utterly gorgeous and everything the people said about it is true. Even the save point is enrapturing, being a stone bench which you have to sit on, but the game won't save until Yorda sits down with you. *sigh *
Shadow of Rome is half a game that I like. That is to say that for half the game you control a very girlie boy Roman who I am convinced is MORE than good friends with the other playable character and you sneak about Rome trying not to be seen. This I like. Sadly for (couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo) Erastes, the other half of the game is to be spent in the Coliseum bashing and hacking limbs from creatures and gladiators. I feel I'm going to suck mightily at that part.
Freedom Fighters is a shooting game, i think, but with a nice twist that you have to recruit people to your cause so you have tasks to do as well as just shooting - basically its an AU where the Russians won World War 2 and America is Commie. i wonder if I can be a double agent and bring down the resistance? Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.... A joke that no-one non-English will get...
Escape from Monkey Island is a game I've owned and played before but for some reason I got rid of it. Can't imagine why, point and clicks are my favourite games of all time and they are as rare as hen's teeth on Playstation, sadly.
Other than THAT, I've bought Sid Meier's Pirates for the PC, which looks inordinate amounts of swash. And possibly buckling.
So... you'll probably see me... sometime in 2009?
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Date: 2007-12-08 03:29 pm (UTC)We did get a Wii over the summer..and I have to say it is a lot of fun since it is so much more interactive than my trusty PS2.
I did ask for Santa to bring me two games for it. Game wise the Wii has been really good about bringing new titles out for it where the PS3? Not so much...not to mention the Wii is a whole lot cheaper imo.
:)
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Date: 2007-12-08 03:36 pm (UTC)I must not buy another console I must not buy another console
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But...
They have Tomb Raider on it.
I can be Lara!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2007-12-08 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-08 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-08 05:24 pm (UTC)I refuse to upgrade my PS2 until it has gasped its last.
*cough*
I still have a fully functioning PS1 in my studio which I use to play Vagrant Story on exclusively.
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Date: 2007-12-08 09:39 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2007-12-09 12:18 am (UTC)It comes with a game pack that has tennis and bowling among other things. You have to get up and mooove. I love it.
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Date: 2007-12-09 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-09 01:38 am (UTC)